On September 17, 2017, at 14:00-16:30 o’clock at the sport complex of State Revenue Committee under the Government of the Republic of Armenia (former “Mika”) there took place “Budo” festival of the Japanese martial arts, which has already become a tradition. This year “Budo” festival was dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Armenia.
Budo, which is translated from Japanese as a martial way, is the collective name for the modern Japanese martial arts. Karate, aikido, judo and kendo make the inseparable...

The Embassy of Japan, in cooperation with the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs of the Republic of Armenia and National Olympic Committee of Armenia will hold the “Budo” Japanese Martial Arts Festival to commemorate the 25th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Armenia. The festival will feature performances by Armenian Budo organizations and will welcome special guests from Japan, the Judo masters Mr. Yoshiharu Makishi (1997 World Championships silver medal, Kodokan-7th dan) , Mr. Hiroshi Izumi (Men’s Judo 90 kg category silver...

On June 10, from 18:00 to 21:00 p.m. at Yerevan Children’s Park (former Komaygi) took place a unique sports festival dedicated to the healthy lifestyle – Mix Battle Fest 2017, which unites such types of sports as street workout, acrostreet, break dance, capoeira, hip-hop. The organizer of the festival was the Armenian Federation of Street Workout, the aim of which is the spreading and development of healthy lifestyle, development of outdoor sports, as well as the formation of literate and healthy-minded youth in our country.
The goal of Mix Battle Fest 2017 is...

On March 17-19, 2017, in Yerevan took place an exceptional international seminar of Aikido with the guidance of Shian, 7th Dan master Sensei Ichiro Shishiya. The seminar was conducted under the title “From Conflict to Harmony” in the frameworks of the homonymous international seminars of the high-rank master. In different countries in the seminars of the master there attend participants from more than 12 countries of Asia and Europe, which make a community of people who have gathered around the idea of peace and healthy lifestyle.
On March 17, 2017, in the sport...

By means of a course, “Hartak” experience exchange festival gave an opportunity to get acquainted with the peculiarities of Aikido martial arts.
Aikido is a Japanese martial arts, in the basis of which there lie the traditional Japanese martial arts, which have centuries of history and the spiritual and philosophical teachings. Aikido has three symbols: in Japanese “Ai” means love, harmony, “ki” means spiritual, inner energy, and “do” means a way.In another words “Aikido” means the way of inner energy and harmony.
By means of a course, the coordinator...

“Armenian Kendo Federation” has been officially registered in 2016 but the club has started its activities still in 2015, when the co-founder and technical manager of the club Yorihiko Maeno Sensei arrived in Armenia for the first time in order to conduct trainings. A year after that there was made a decision to create “Armenian Kendo Federation” in the Republic of Armenia for the development and dissemination of this martial arts and to cooperate fully with the international organizations. The head of the club is Arthur Poghosyan, who started his way of the...

On April 16, 2016 in the aikido hall of Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, where the ambassador of Japan Mr. Eiji Taguchi weekly conducts lessons, was hosted by the world-class master of Kendo martial arts, 7th Dan Renshi, Yorihiko Maeno Snesei. At 10 o’clock, Taguchi sensei began the lesson with a warming up.
Then after performing the greeting ceremony with the group,
they started to teach striking techniques.
After that, two participants put on Kendo uniforms and the other participants used the striking technique learnt just on them.
There was a performing...

On April 13, 2016 at 07:00-8:30 p.m. world-class master of Kendo martial arts, 7th Dan Renshi, Yorihiko Maeno Sensei, who has arrived from Japan, conducted his first seminar of Kendo martial arts in the hall located at Davitashen 6/1, 3rd block.
Before beginning the lesson, he taught how to put on Kendo uniform.
At the moment there are only two uniforms in Armenia. The coach has sent from Japan four uniforms as presents, he will also leave one uniformfor the Armenian sportsmen, which he has brought with him. When putting on the uniform the Armenian coach Arthur...

On June 13, 2015 in «Dinamo» stadium the open championship of Japan Karate Association of Armenia has started. The championship has been carried out with contribution of Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of the RA, with contribution of Japan Karate Association of Armenia (JKA Armenia) as well as with the initiative of «Unison» non-governmental organization. The project has been titled «You can protect yourself». More than 300 sportsmen have participated to this championship coming from different regions of Armenia, including 15 disabled...

Ju-Jutsu is a kind of Japanese hand-to-hand fighting, the main principle of which is the following: not to go to direct confrontation but by yielding the attacks of the opponent direct his actions until the latter is at last entrapped.
Ju-յutsu is translated from Japanese as “soft techniques” (in Japanese “ju” means soft and “jutsu” means technique, tools). This naming should be perceived figuratively, as the attacks of jujutsu can be hardly called soft. Besides “ju-jutsu” formerly other names were also used, such as “taitsuju”, “kogusoku”,...

In the ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of the RA a special initiative has been started on February 23, 2015. In the framework of «You can protect yourself» project the karate trainings are organized for invalid workers and other people with disabilities. In this ministry the project is implemented by JKA Armenia Japanese Karate Association of Armenia, by the ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of the RA and «Unison» NGO.
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Japan Karate Association in Armenia starts the project “You can defend yourself”, the goal of which is to enable people with disabilities also be engaged in martial arts and take part in the republican and international competitions. Within the frameworks of the project there will be organized a unique flash mob to which famous people will join.Today during the meeting with the journalists said the chief trainer of Japan Karate Association in Armenia Sevak Hakobyan. He emphasizes that this project will enable to break the stereotypes in our society that people with...

25.11.14
The members of the sambo team of Armenia that have taken part in the World Championship of Sambo in Japan have returned early this morning. This is announced by the Sambo Federation of Armenia and they also inform that many fans of sambo have met them, especially the world champion Mavrik Nasibyan, who was the strongest of the combat sambo in 74 kg weight. Mavrik Nasibyan said to sambo.am, that he dedicates his victory to the Armenian pilots who were martyred in the sky of Artsakh.
The source also mentions, that the new champion and bronze medalist Ashot...

On October 17-19, seminars of aikido took place in “Olympic school of Wrestling“ in Agatangeghos 7, which were held by the instructor Benjamin Vardanyan (5th dan).
The shidoin lives in USA and had come to Armenia to hold those seminars.
photos by Sona Andreasyan and Hayk Barkhudaryan
translated from Armenian into English by Edith Margaryan
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September 17, 2012
Township of Japan Soccer Academy U-16 team held victory over Armenian U-17 team with 7 – 0 score in Avan’s football academy. After the game the Japanese won again the 11-meter-penalty kick with 5:3 score. Japanese team is preparing in Armenia for the upcoming U-16 Asia Cup tournament in Iran. They will leave for the venue on September 18.
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February 28, 2013
The Armenian sport lovers will probably be able to frequently see, even to witness the trainings of the strongest figure skaters of Japan. This became clear at the National Olympic Committee of Armenia, where the president of Japan Skating Federation Hedeito Ito and the manager of that organization Tatsuro Matsumura were hosted. They were accompanied to Armenia by one of our famous ex-trainers Ararat Zaqaryan, who now lives and works in Moscow.
The guests visited Tsitsernakaberd (Genocide Museum), put wreaths at the memorial of the victims of genocide....

Judo entered the Republic of Armenia at the end of 1960-ies, when the young students of the coach of Sambo wrestling from Gyumri – Robert Hovhannisyan showed high results in the international arena: Hovhannes Sargsyan won the honorable second prize at the European Youth Championship, which took place in England in 1968, and Aram Grigoryan won the third prize at the European Youth Championship, which took place in Italy in 1969. Telman Qocharyan from Yerevan, who had high sports results in Greco-Roman and Sambo wrestling in 1968 started to work as a coach and prepared a...